Enhance Your Weight Loss

Half knowledge is always more harmful than none at all. With a lot of information available all over for weight watchers and losers, it is important to make sure you are not victim of myths and negative information about weight loss. Many people who have lost weight (and gained it later) or others who have had successful weight loss stories post their experiences online. But it is necessary to ensure what you follow is healthy and will not adversely affect you.
Here are a few things you must consider seriously when wanting to lose weight:

1. Never skip breakfast: sure you may lose a few pounds, but this is unhealthy. When you skip breakfast, you unconsciously tend to supplement the lost calories by over eating during lunch, or choosing the wrong foods. You may also end up binging. This tends to increase in weight, rather than loss of it. When you start your day with a healthy hearty breakfast, you tend to stay fuller for longer. You blood sugar levels will be stable and you will resist unhealthy eating. Always keep in mind "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper".


2. Choose a low calorie diet: see a weight loss coach for an integrated low calorie diet. The juices, soups, steamed veggies, are pseudo low calorie foods. Juices have high glycemic index as they include fruits that have stripped off their fiber which in turn lowers the nutrition levels. Choose whole fruits over packaged fruit drinks. Steamed veggies can make you feel sick due to the blandness. Not only is this an unsustainable diet, it leads to unstable weight loss where, once you stop, you may end up gaining more than you lost. A diet plan should include low calorie foods from all nutrition types: carbohydrates, proteins, minerals, vitamins, and also fat. The body needs an adequate amount of each of these to function optimally, and hence a good balanced diet contains the right amounts of all of these.


3. Exercise: not eating too much through the day is no excuse for not exercising. Your body needs physical activity to lose weight and fat, and to tone up the muscles. It is important to exercise as it not only helps you burn calories, it will improve blood sugar and make you feel more energetic due to the aerobic reactions it will trigger in your body. While exercise is important, results will be more effective if exercise is teamed with a good balanced diet. The right combination of exercise and a healthy diet will increase metabolism, reduce acidity, bloating, lethargy, and anxiety.

Weighing yourself everyday: weight is subject to water retention and weighing in daily will give an accurate picture of the weight lost. What is more important is to monitor the fat percentage. Daily weigh in may only record the water loss and not the fat loss and may prove to be faulty. Hence, weigh in weekly to get accurate numbers and monitor weight loss.

Not only is this an unsustainable diet, it leads to unstable weight loss where, once you stop, you may end up gaining more than you lost. A diet plan should include low calorie foods from all nutrition types: carbohydrates, proteins, minerals, vitamins, and also fat.

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